Eric Odom

An independent group of web 2.0 minded eActivists have decided that the free-market side of the political realm was lacking in investigative resources looking to pry into the lives of Presidential candidates. The new site, Talk Straight, aims to provide a collection of fact sheets and investigative pieces into the politics of the 2008 Presidential election.

Talk Straight, unlike most other investigative websites (which are mostly funded by the left), is looking to expose Barack Obama and his ties to far left money and corruption. The site will also work to reveal the shallow lines in Obama’s policy and promises. The founders plan to follow the dollars, expose Obama’s character, reveal his lies, tackle his policies, and debunk some rumors.

Indeed, the opposition is not only well funded… it’s actually owned and paid for by the Obama campaign. Meet Fight the Smears, an Obama campaign website looking to spin the message and fight back against sites and organizations who work to expose Barack Obama for who he really is.

The part I find most interested about Talk Straight vs. Fight the Smears is that one is a total grassroots effort and the other is a campaign controlled effort. In times where media, politicos, strategists, and virtually everyone else claims the left is controlling the online realm, it’s ironic that a group of center-right, online activists have single handedly launched an independent site that has the potential to counter Obama’s “Fight the Smears”.

The #dontgo Movement also recently proved to the world that center-right activists do indeed understand internet activism. The #dontgo Movement, of which I am proudly a part of, used Twitter and other social media tools to help dominate the energy message and organize a complete online movement.

Now Talk Straight goes live, proving that center-right activists can not only compete, but can be active from the bottom up, not like Obama’s top down method.

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Ali Akbar, the site founder and publisher, is proving to be one of the web’s top activists. Ali A. Akbar is a young Online Republican activist working to bring web 2.0 and interactivity to campaigns and right-leaning causes. He’s a previous BlogTalkRadio show host of RightTalkRadio. He also has a number of affiliations with today’s online Conservative movement sites.

Center-right campaigns and organizations need to pay very close attention to this rising star. If Akbar can continue publishing state-of-the-art political efforts such as Talk Straight, I believe he’ll be one of the true leaders in online activism moving forward.

If you haven’t done so yet, do yourself a favor and go check out Talk Straight.

-Eric Odom